I learned that in Moscow there was an opportunity to take a blood test for COVID-19 antibodies completely free of charge, without an appointment and referral.
I quickly issued a pass, went and passed it.
An analysis for coronavirus antibodies allows you to find out if a person is immune to COVID-19 (it is formed if a person has been ill, perhaps without even noticing it).
Since May 12, Moscow has an opportunity to get tested for antibodies in several city polyclinics. To receive these tests, polyclinics opened separate entrances (usually behind) and they accept everyone from any districts of Moscow (and maybe not only Muscovites, I don't know). No referral or entry is required - just a passport and policy. It seems that tests are taken from 8 am to 8 pm.
I tried to find out on the information numbers where exactly it is possible to rent it closer to home, but in vain: no one knows anything. And then I just went to the polyclinic where Nefer was tested, who wrote about it, although I had to go through all of Moscow.
This is a branch number 1 of polyclinic number 219 at Moscow, st. Vilisa Latsis, d. 23, bldg. 2. On their website writtenthat from the metro station Planernaya you need to go by buses, in fact there is about ten minutes on foot.
The clinic is the most ordinary, standard, five-story.
I entered the main entrance without seeing the notice on the right. I was directed from there to a separate entrance in the back, although in fact there are exactly five steps along the corridor.
Behind is a white door with the words "Entrance to the blood sampling".
At the entrance, two aunts in protective suits and respirators are greeted, they measure the temperature, give out shoe covers, a mask and gloves (the main thing hide yours in advance :) and ask you to fill out a document (name, registration and residence address, phone number, passport data, policy number, place work).
Then the data is entered into the database and sent to an adjacent office to donate blood from a vein.
The blood is placed in a test tube with a number and the scary word COVID.
The whole procedure took me fifteen minutes - surprisingly, there were no applicants at all. I passed the test on May 13 at 18:20. According to doctors, on the first day, May 12, there were a lot of people.
The donated blood is first tested for the presence of coronavirus and if it is detected, they will call during the day, and then all the necessary quarantine measures will be applied.
The test for antibodies is done within a week, the results will not be announced, they can be seen in the electronic card. For this, I finally got access to it. here. The card itself lives here: https://lk.emias.mos.ru/medical-records.
In theory, each district should have one polyclinic where such tests are done, but I could not find information about them. It is known that such tests are definitely done in the following clinics:
GP 6 branch 4 on Nemchinov street, d. 14, pp. 1;
GP 46 branch 3 on Vorontsovskaya st., 14, p. 1.
I think, as soon as the people "get wind", there will be many who want to take the antibody test, so if you want to know if you are immune to COVID-19, you better run faster.
Updated: A picture has appeared with the proposed list of clinics and hospitals where you can take the test:
List of clinics from this picture:
GP 219 F1, GP 6 F4, GP 209 F1, GP 45 F5, GP 218 F5, GP 107 F1, GP 180 F3, GP 12 F1, GP 191 F1, GP 62 F1, GP 64 F1, GP 115 F2, GP 175 F3, GP 36, GP 166 F1, GP 3 Ф2, ГП 68 Ф2, ГП 109 Ф2, ГП 67 Ф1, ГП 66 Ф1, ГП 22 Ф3, ГП 11 Ф1, ГП 8 Ф2, ГП 212 Ф5, ГП 2 Ф3, ДЦ 5 Ф4, ДКЦ 1 Ф2, KDP 121 Ф1, Konchalovsky City Clinical Hospital, GB Shcherbinskaya.
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